After reviewing Celcom and Maxis’s plans, as well as another company’s apparent 4G plans, I decided to go for the Maxis one.

The USB modem package for 18months is RM138 per month. It includes the use of a Huawei E220 3.5G (HSDPA) Modem capable of 3.6Mbps. The modem outright will cost RM1,338 or so. I found some on the net selling for RM940. But that’s a really expensive investment.

I took the LRT to KLCC Suria and went to the Maxis Centre there. Service was great. I got everything done under an hour. And was surfing at the Maxis Centre itself. I could not wait to test it out. It worked well with a minor driver installation and the software worked without a hitch on my MacBook.

Update: 13/11/2007

Celcom’s package starts at RM68. However, it DOES NOT come with the necessary modem. A PCMCIA card type modem would start somewhere at RM350 and the Huawei E220 USB modem is said to cost about RM1,300+.

Since I am not willing to shell out that 1K for the modem, I went with Maxis… (and other reasons for not choosing Celcom)

The package that it comes in is like a DVD albeit a little thicker.

The package. Very neat.

Opening the pack. You get the modem inside with the CD ROM of instructions and a Mac OS driver and Dialing App.(Note, that’s my precious MacBook underneat, with the sleep light pulsating.

See the entire contents. It’s got an installation CD for Mac OS X, the modem, that takes in a SIM card. A USB cable. Another USB cable for additional power. A 3G SIM card, and a double-side foam sticker for attaching your modem to your PC or Laptop computer (if you want it permanently attached.)

Neat. Below is a screenshot of a test I did at a spot in Brickfields yesterday. It went up later, to about 800k+.